Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:03 PM 1998-09-25 -0500, Bud Cook wrote: >Are any of these lenses actually made by Carl Zeiss or are they just >designed by Zeiss for the Japanese manufacturer? Gads, sir, bite your tongue! Kyocera builds Zeiss lenses, as does Rollei, to Zeiss standards. The final inspection is done by Zeiss, not Kyocera, inspectors -- in fact, the room where these inspections are done has been described, by the other Kyocera staff, as "the round-eye room", in that no Japanese were admitted. (Though Alan Nomano told me that Zeiss now has hired a couple of Chinese nationals from Hong Kong as TI's, so this has recently changed!) A Zeiss lens is a Zeiss lens. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!